political

Viral Video: “Game Change” (Or the Latest Sarah Palin Impersonation)

Kara Swisher in Media on December 26, 2011 at 3:22 am PT

She’s baaaack.

Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

A man who needs no introduction.

Start-Up Rally Wants Your Cause to Raise Money Online, Even if Justin Bieber Isn’t Tweeting About It

Drake Martinet in News on July 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

There’s an old maxim in fundraising: It’s better to get one dollar from 100 supporters than it is to get $100 from one supporter. Or you can get a new online fundraising start-up called Rally to take advantage of the network effects of your real supporters.

AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

Wonderwall Goes Latino

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 12:46 am PT

Hola Sofia Vergara! In an interesting brand extension, the popular celebrity and entertainment site Wonderwall has launched a version aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market called Wonderwall Latino. The main Wonderwall site, which is a partnership between Hollywood production company BermanBraun and Microsoft’s MSN portal that launched in early 2009, now has 11.3 million unique users and 337 million page views a month.

YouTube Nabs a Sit-Down With Barack Obama

Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2010 at 7:39 am PT

Yet another tie-up between Google and the White House: A one-on-one interview between Barack Obama and YouTube. The crowd-sourced questions are a sort-of novelty, but it’s worth nothing that this is yet another live-streamed event for the clip site.

Kara Visits the Oxford Social Media Convention: I Say Twitt-er, You Say Twitt-ah

Kara Swisher in News on September 18, 2009 at 6:40 am PT

Today, BoomTown has traveled to England to see the Queen, but mostly to attend and speak at a conference at the University of Oxford, titled “Oxford Social Media Convention: Assessing the Evolution, Impact and Potential of Social Media.” In other words: What is up with this Twitter thing, but in a British accent.

New Chinese Version of Google SafeSearch Eliminates Google Entirely

John Paczkowski in News on June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Google’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, has once again run afoul of the Chinese government, which has a similar goal, but would much prefer that certain information stay inaccessible. And so, on Wednesday evening, Chinese citizens found themselves once again unable to use Google, Gmail, and YouTube as their government condemned Google as a purveyor of porn.